What Matters, What Matters More: How Will You Teach Differently This School Year?

In this episode, I check in with four teachers on their expectations and plans for the new school year. What developments, challenges, and silver linings do you see ahead? What do you now feel is more important and what matters less?

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Keisha Rembert is a passionate learner and fierce equity advocate. She is an award-winning educator who taught middle school ELA and United States History teacher for many years and now instructs future educators. She hopes to change our world one student at a time.
Tara Bogozan is an English teacher and AVID Elective educator. She has taught both middle and high school in the Atlanta metro area for over seventeen years.

Sheila Wilson is a dynamic educator with Virginia Beach City Public Schools. She has over 3 decades of experience teaching elementary, secondary, and post-secondary education as an Adjunct Professor in the Teacher Leader program. Dr. Wilson earned her B.A. and M.Ed. from the University of New Orleans in Drama and Communications and Curriculum and Instruction. She earned her doctorate in K-12 School Leadership from Regent University. Her passion for working with students is evidenced in her selection as Teacher of the Year in 2015 and 2019 and most recently as Reading Teacher of the year in 2021. Dr. Wilson is leading change in education through her company AmplifyEd Educational Consulting as the Learning Architect by designing targeted content for adults as a mentor, presenter, dissertation coach, and online course facilitator.

Sarah Cooper teaches eighth-grade U.S. history and civics and is Associate Head of School at Flintridge Preparatory School in La Canada. She is the author of Making History Mine and Creating Citizens.